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Technology and My Hobby series continues

The series on the New Florence blog on how technology has influenced people’s hobby/passion continues to grow nicely – it’s up to 58 contributors

Recent ones:

Charlotte Otter	Writing
Richard Hunter	Second Career in Music
Will Scott	Long Distance Community Svc
Gretchen Lindquist	Soprano Singing
Jim Holincheck	Disney World
Naomi Bloom	Friends
Mark Galloway	Low-tech Horse
Harald Reiter	Martial Arts

The first 50 were here

More New Florence

On the innovation blog

“Engineering the Future” Day

“Eyebuds”

Who thought of that name?

Tornado Chasers

Innovation and droughts

More Innovation

on the New Florence blog

Wired: The Mystery Issue

President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)

“The state of Apps”

IBM's Smart Infrastructure Projects

More New Renaissance

on the innovation blog

“Digital Body Language”

The Barbershop, er iPhone Appshop, Quartet

Time honors 9 tech innovators

Wolfram Alpha Engine

More Innovation

On the New Florence blog

Earth Day

Computational Fluid Dynamics in Data Centers

Google’s Mobile App Store

Westwood One’s Content Delivery Investments

Technology and My Hobby series turns 50!

The series I have running for the last 3 months reached the 50 contributor milestone – 4 a week and a pipeline which keeps growing. 

Amazing the response - it has become a “milk mustache” for technology – something wholesome we can all celebrate!

Readers, if you or someone you know has other interesting hobbies, passions, charities…love to consider them…

In meantime,  enjoy these 50 gems…(updated to reflect newer ones)

Gretchen Lindquist	Soprano Singing
Jim Holincheck	Disney World
Naomi Bloom	Friends
Mark Galloway	Low-tech Horse
Harald Reier	Martial Arts
Michael Krigsman	Photography
Anil Wats	Model Planes
Helmuth Guembel	Global Home Improvement
William Mougayar	Gastronomy
Mike O’Brien	Little League Baseball
Mike Laven	Musical Discoveries
Nick Dembla	Squash
Rusty Weston	Cats
Marilyn Pratt	Theater
Rein Krevald	Adventure Writing
Ameed Taylor	Flying
Josh Snowhorn	Next-Gen Home Design
Larry Dignan	Working Out
David Dobrin	Bridge
Louis Columbus	Snorkeling
Tom Chimera	RV Travel
Floyd Teter	BBQ
Ray Wang	Vinyl DJs
Gerlinde Gniewosz	Organ Playing
Karen Beaman	Tennis
Erik Keller	Gardening
Joy Wald	Being “Super Mom”
Joe Thornton	Big Band Jazz
John Dean	Wine
Curtis Beebe	Sailing
Peanuts Mirchandani	Beagles
Tom Wailgum	Home Movies
Dan Dal Degan	Basketball Coaching
Jason Busch	Antiquarian Books
Rita Mirchandani	Chess
Timothy Chou	Green Living
Tom Ryan	Target Rifles
Michael Lamoureux	Armchair Archaeology
Paul Wiest	Cycling
Jim Rafferty	Golf
Harish Malani	International Travel
Mike Prosceno	Fishing
Tom Foydel	The Gift that keeps Giving
Francine McKenna	Reading
Alvaro “Blag” Tejada Galindo	Tech Toons
Devan Sabaratnam	Guitar Rock
Charlie Bess	Youth Science Mentoring
Kimberly McDonald Baker	Side-Tripping
Dennis Howlett	Home Brewing
Christian Schuh	Soccer Coaching
Brian Sommer	Tinkering with Cars
Josh Greenbaum	“Technology Luddites”
Eric Dirst	Running
Sig Rinde	Skiing
Bob Warfield	Various including Hot-Rodding

More New Florence

On the innovation blog

The State of Games

Yahoo’s M45

A new way to find trapped miners

“Cloud Pioneers”

Global Delivery - in Home Improvement

"...I have watched with admiration how “follow the sun” techniques have matured to coordinate global software development in US, Europe, India and other parts of the world. So, when it came to a home improvement project, I said – why not apply those some principles?"

Helmuth Guembel in the Technology and my Hobby series on his using labor and materials from Bali and India for home improvements in Switzerland - with some "interesting" results...

More New Renaissance

On the innovation blog

Maybe your iPhone can help cook breakfast

Your airline wants to get to know you

On a rainy day you can see for hundreds of miles…

GE, Intel and Home Health Care

The art of seeing things differently

More New Florence

on the innovation blog

Microwave Landing Systems

Your web legacy

Skype on iPhone

Darwin and airplanes

An “American Idol” for startups